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Topic: noSmooth doesn't apply to text? (Read 529 times) |
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mattgilbert
 
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noSmooth doesn't apply to text?
« on: Nov 29th, 2004, 6:49pm » |
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hi,
Is noSmooth() also supposed to make the text bitmapped? When I load Verdana at 14 pt, and try to draw it to the screen at 14 pt, with noSmooth() allready called, it still smooths it. Here's the code:
Code:
BFont verdana;
void setup(){
background(0);
noSmooth();
verdana = loadFont("Verdana.vlw");
textFont(verdana, 14);
text("word", 15, 50);
}
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Verdana is drawn properly bitmapped in the preview window when I'm creating it. One odd thing: In the sketch window it seems to be drawing smaller than it is in in the preview.
Is there a way to render bitmapped fonts that I don't know about?
matt
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mattgilbert
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Re: noSmooth doesn't apply to text?
« Reply #1 on: Dec 11th, 2004, 11:42am » |
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any work-arounds? some other way to get bitmapped text?
matt
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fjen
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Re: noSmooth doesn't apply to text?
« Reply #2 on: Dec 11th, 2004, 2:00pm » |
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try calling noSmooth() after textFont() ...
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fry
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Re: noSmooth doesn't apply to text?
« Reply #3 on: Dec 11th, 2004, 6:00pm » |
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you have to use textSpace(SCREEN_SPACE) to turn off the text smoothing. that will draw it at the exact size at which it was created.
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fjen
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Re: noSmooth doesn't apply to text?
« Reply #4 on: Dec 11th, 2004, 6:41pm » |
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what is up with me? think before posting!
anyway, use textSpace(SCREEN_SPACE) _after_ textFont() ... that's what i wanted to say.
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mattgilbert
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Re: noSmooth doesn't apply to text?
« Reply #5 on: Dec 11th, 2004, 10:50pm » |
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ok, now trying:
Code:
BFont verdana12;
void setup(){
background(0);
noSmooth();
verdana12 = loadFont("Verdana12.vlw");
textFont(verdana12, 12);
textSpace(SCREEN_SPACE);
text("word", 15, 50);
}
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with "Verdana12.vlw" being created at 12 points with the "Smooth" checkbox unchecked.
This looks better, but it still isn't bitmapped, the way it previews in the Create Font window.
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matt
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fjen
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Re: noSmooth doesn't apply to text?
« Reply #6 on: Dec 11th, 2004, 11:45pm » |
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that's because the 'create-font' tool sometimes seems to ignore the 'no-smooth' setting.
here's a little test that shows that the verdana 12 generated by create-font with no-smooth _IS_ smoothed:
Code:
BFont font;
int fheight=20, fwidth=15;
char[] somechars = (new String(" !\"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~")).toCharArray();
BGraphics pg;
void setup()
{
size( somechars.length*fwidth, fheight );
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//| the vlw font was created using size 12, no smoothing.
//| (same for versions .68 and .72 / mac)
font = loadFont("Verdana-12.vlw");
framerate(5);
pg = new BGraphics( fwidth, fheight ); pg.format = RGB;
}
void loop()
{
background(255);
pg.background(255);
pg.fill(0);
pg.textFont(font);
pg.textSpace(SCREEN_SPACE);
//image(font.images[ci], 10, 10); ci++;
int ci = 0;
for(int xx=0; ci<somechars.length; xx++)
{
pg.background(255);
//|
//| the actual character-images from inside BFont
pg.image(font.images[ci], 1, 1);
//|
//| write one char
//pg.text(String.valueOf(somechars[ci]), 1, fheight);
image(pg, xx*fwidth, 0);
stroke(200);
line(xx*fwidth,0,xx*fwidth,fheight);
ci++;
}
}
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don't know how to work around this ...
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fjen
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Re: noSmooth doesn't apply to text?
« Reply #7 on: Dec 11th, 2004, 11:57pm » |
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this made me wondering a little, in fact i can't create ANY not-smoothed fonts with the create-font-tool ...
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mattgilbert
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Re: noSmooth doesn't apply to text?
« Reply #8 on: Dec 12th, 2004, 3:25am » |
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bummer. oh well.
what is a .vlw font, anyway? are there other ways to create them that might work?
matt
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| « Last Edit: Dec 12th, 2004, 3:26am by mattgilbert » |
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fry
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Re: noSmooth doesn't apply to text?
« Reply #9 on: Dec 12th, 2004, 6:26am » |
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on Dec 11th, 2004, 11:57pm, fjen wrote:| this made me wondering a little, in fact i can't create ANY not-smoothed fonts with the create-font-tool ... |
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in your case, this is a macosx-only bug, thanks to apple, who doesn't seem to want to honor text anti-aliasing being shut off in java. it works fine on windows.
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fry
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Re: noSmooth doesn't apply to text?
« Reply #10 on: Dec 12th, 2004, 6:27am » |
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on Dec 11th, 2004, 10:50pm, mattgilbert wrote:
with "Verdana12.vlw" being created at 12 points with the "Smooth" checkbox unchecked.
This looks better, but it still isn't bitmapped, the way it previews in the Create Font window. |
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textSpace(SCREEN_SPACE) should be producing identical results to whatever you see in the "Create Font" window. if not, could you send a screenshot of what's happening the create font window and an image from your applet that's fuzzy
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